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27 May 2012
                       
 
 
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22 Feb 2012
 
 
Ray of hope in Gordhan’s speech
BUDGET
With just hours to go before Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan delivers his Budget Speech, many are expecting the speech’s mood to be an austere one, but it may just be one tinged strongly with...
 
 
17 Feb 2012
 
‘The fierce urgency of now’
REAL ECONOMY: INVESTMENT
What can government do to improve the outlook for growth and job creation in light of some serious external and domestic economic headwinds? Standard Bank’s chief economist Goolam Ballim has...
 
 
15 Feb 2012
 
SA: Patel: Address by the Minister of Economic Development, in response to the State of the Nation Address, in the National Assembly (14/02/2012)
Topics
Mr President, on Thursday you outlined an infrastructure plan that represents a bold, strategic and integrated platform to mobilise the state, private investors and the South African public behind...
 
 
08 Feb 2012
 
Return to era when State contributed 50c in every rand invested - economist
INVESTMENT
In light of serious external and domestic economic headwinds, concerted efforts were required to raise public sector investment to levels where South Africa once again began sustaining a minimum...
 
 
14 Dec 2011
 
 
 
Mining, manufacturing to remain a drag on SA’s growth in 2012
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
The contribution of South Africa’s mining and manufacturing sectors is likely to remain weak in 2012, Absa Capital argued in its latest quarterly economic outlook, in which the bank also cut its...
 
 
02 Dec 2011
 
New rules needed to accelerate investment in Africa
CLIMATE FINANCE
The world needs a new way of doing business in Africa, particularly with regard to climate finance, World Bank special envoy for climate change Andrew Steer said on Friday. The gross domestic...
 
 
The state we're in
REAL ECONOMY: ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
The World Bank has lowered its baseline growth forecasts for South Africa for 2011, from 3.5%, in July, to 3.2%, and has warned that the downside risks to the country’s growth outlook for 2012...
 
 
30 Nov 2011
 
 
 
Gauteng has the highest OECD metro-region unemployment rate
REGIONAL PLANNING
At 26.0% in the first quarter this year, the Gauteng city-region has the highest unemployment rate among about twenty metropolitan territories reviewed by the Organisation for Economic Development...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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